PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2005 ID-44740
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All India Students' Association (AISA) · 23.3.05 .
Film Screening .
Ten Days That Shook Motorcycle Diaries .
The landmark fum based on Che Guevara's.
The World .
memoirs of his travels through Latin America.
Cfff~~~~~ as a young student, which drew him to .
based on John Reed's novel, With original dedicate his life to revolution. Produced by Robert Kecttord .
footage of1917 October Revolution directed by Brazilian f.Ummalcer Walter Salles. Starring .
.
Dubbed in Hindi, Our. 76 min. Garcia Bernal as the young Che. .
7 om 23 March KC OAT I 9 pm 23 March OAT .
Bhagat Singh-Pash-Chandrashekhar: The 'Spring Thunder' of Their Call Continues to Resound .
Long Live Bhagat Singh's Struggle .
.
For a Free and Egalitarian Socialist India and World! .
March 23, 1931 -the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. Their martyrdom .
.
sparked off a new debate in the whole freedom struggle, inspiring thousands of young people to embrace the path of IJ jrevolution, and posing a question mark to the Congress-led model of freedom movement Commenting on this model, .
Bhagat Singh wrote in 1931, "This struggle is based on middle-class shopkeepers and a few capitalists...but the real · . 'bourgeois' leaders do not,.
revolutionary armies are in the fields and the factories -peasants and workers. But our cannot. dare to join hands with them... " Recognising the dangers of British-sponsored communalism, and of a freedom struggle waged in a religious idiom, Bhagat Singh called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared .
that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. The British hanged Bhagat Singh, because his ideas were doubly dangerous-not only did he speak offreedom from .
the BriUsh; inspired by the Russian Revolution, he spoke of liberating humanity from exploitation, offightjng for a socialist society. These were the ideas that the British hoped to kill by hanging him. But Bhagat Singh's martyrdom continues to inspire young people in India even today. Asked during the JNUSU Presidential Debate if he was contest1ng for JNUSU outof 'ambition', Comrade Chandrashekhar replied, "Yes, llm ambitious; .
my ambition is for a life like Bhagat Singh and a death like Che Guevara!" Truly, Chandu kept his promise. In the same spring month of March in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had smilingly faced imperialist gallows, .
Chandrashekhar boldly faced assassins' bullets while addressing a street-comer meeting in his hometown Siwan. In the late 60s and the 70s, the very flower of Bengal's youth responded to Charu Majumdar's call, burning their degrees and facing brutal murder and torture. Their crime? With the 'spring thunder' of Naxalbari, they were bringing alive Bhagat Singh's dream ofjoining hands with the 'revolutionary armies in the fields and the factories'. .
Even today, those who struggle for the India of Shagat Singh's dreams are killed by the ruling classes -be it former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar, Manju Devi who challenged the RanveefSena, orworkers' leaders like Datta .
Samant and Niyogi, or the beloved CPI (ML) MLA Mahendra Singh, who was killed by the BJP Government in Jharkhand. .
As imperialists intensify their plunder of third world resources, their economic and military offensive on the third world from .
Iraq to India, young people in our country and the world keep Bhagat Singh's and Che's legacy ofanti-imperialiststruggles .
aHve with their movements and their sacrifices. .
The revolutionary poet of Punjab, Pash, warned us-"Most dangerous of all is the death of our dreams". On 23 .
March 1988, Pash too was killed by religious fundamentalists. But bullets and gallows have never had the power to kill .
dreams -especially those dreams that have a steely core of reality and determination. .
Whatwas the stuff that Bhagat Singh's dreams were made of? During his long trial, BhagatSingh and his comrades .
.
sent a letter to their Russian comrades on Lenin's birth anniversary, hailing Lenin for the glorious October .
revolution, and pledging that they would fight for such a Revolution in India and all over the world. Bhagat Singh, the .
greatest symbol of patriotic sacrifice, who gave up his life fighting for his own country, wasjust as committed to revolutionary .
internationalism as well. Today, to commemorate Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day, AISAwill screen Ten Days That Shook .
The World-a film based on John Reed's documentary novel, which tells the story of the great October Revolution, and .
uses original footage from the Revolution. .
Today, AI SA will also screen Motorcycle Diaries, based on Che Guevara's notes ofhis travels in Latin America as a .
young medical student. Those diaries call out: ''Let the world change you; and you can change the world". Cht~fs .
diaries record how meeting the poor and indigenous people of Chile, Peru, Venezuela "changed me more than I thought. I .
am not me anymore." Che's journey, that began with his 'Motorcycle Diaries', took him eventually to revolution in Cuba and .
martyrdom in Bolivia, which made him the hero for anti-imperialist people all over Latin America and the world. .
Che Guevara, born in Argentina, fought against a CIA coup in Guatemala, led the Revolution that toppled the US-.
.
spons0red Batista regime in Cuba, and was killed by the CIA while he was leading a guerilla movement in the jungles of .
Bolivia. At a time when imperialistarmies are assaulting third world nations and plundering third world economies, .
Bhagat Singh's legacy of anti-imperialist nationalism and Che's anti-imperialist internationalism becomes all .
.
the more relevant. .
sd/-Rajesh Kumar, Jt. Secy., AJSA, JNU.
sd/-Awadhesh, Gen. Secy., AI SA. JNU .
.
PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2005 ID-44740
.
---~-.
~~ 1 .
All India Students' Association (AISA) · 23.3.05 .
Film Screening .
Ten Days That Shook Motorcycle Diaries .
The landmark fum based on Che Guevara's.
The World .
memoirs of his travels through Latin America.
Cfff~~~~~ as a young student, which drew him to .
based on John Reed's novel, With original dedicate his life to revolution. Produced by Robert Kecttord .
footage of1917 October Revolution directed by Brazilian f.Ummalcer Walter Salles. Starring .
.
Dubbed in Hindi, Our. 76 min. Garcia Bernal as the young Che. .
7 om 23 March KC OAT I 9 pm 23 March OAT .
Bhagat Singh-Pash-Chandrashekhar: The 'Spring Thunder' of Their Call Continues to Resound .
Long Live Bhagat Singh's Struggle .
.
For a Free and Egalitarian Socialist India and World! .
March 23, 1931 -the day that Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged to death. Their martyrdom .
.
sparked off a new debate in the whole freedom struggle, inspiring thousands of young people to embrace the path of IJ jrevolution, and posing a question mark to the Congress-led model of freedom movement Commenting on this model, .
Bhagat Singh wrote in 1931, "This struggle is based on middle-class shopkeepers and a few capitalists...but the real · . 'bourgeois' leaders do not,.
revolutionary armies are in the fields and the factories -peasants and workers. But our cannot. dare to join hands with them... " Recognising the dangers of British-sponsored communalism, and of a freedom struggle waged in a religious idiom, Bhagat Singh called for a complete separation of religion from politics, and declared .
that only a secular society could be the basis for a modern and free India. The British hanged Bhagat Singh, because his ideas were doubly dangerous-not only did he speak offreedom from .
the BriUsh; inspired by the Russian Revolution, he spoke of liberating humanity from exploitation, offightjng for a socialist society. These were the ideas that the British hoped to kill by hanging him. But Bhagat Singh's martyrdom continues to inspire young people in India even today. Asked during the JNUSU Presidential Debate if he was contest1ng for JNUSU outof 'ambition', Comrade Chandrashekhar replied, "Yes, llm ambitious; .
my ambition is for a life like Bhagat Singh and a death like Che Guevara!" Truly, Chandu kept his promise. In the same spring month of March in which Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru had smilingly faced imperialist gallows, .
Chandrashekhar boldly faced assassins' bullets while addressing a street-comer meeting in his hometown Siwan. In the late 60s and the 70s, the very flower of Bengal's youth responded to Charu Majumdar's call, burning their degrees and facing brutal murder and torture. Their crime? With the 'spring thunder' of Naxalbari, they were bringing alive Bhagat Singh's dream ofjoining hands with the 'revolutionary armies in the fields and the factories'. .
Even today, those who struggle for the India of Shagat Singh's dreams are killed by the ruling classes -be it former JNUSU President Comrade Chandrashekhar, Manju Devi who challenged the RanveefSena, orworkers' leaders like Datta .
Samant and Niyogi, or the beloved CPI (ML) MLA Mahendra Singh, who was killed by the BJP Government in Jharkhand. .
As imperialists intensify their plunder of third world resources, their economic and military offensive on the third world from .
Iraq to India, young people in our country and the world keep Bhagat Singh's and Che's legacy ofanti-imperialiststruggles .
aHve with their movements and their sacrifices. .
The revolutionary poet of Punjab, Pash, warned us-"Most dangerous of all is the death of our dreams". On 23 .
March 1988, Pash too was killed by religious fundamentalists. But bullets and gallows have never had the power to kill .
dreams -especially those dreams that have a steely core of reality and determination. .
Whatwas the stuff that Bhagat Singh's dreams were made of? During his long trial, BhagatSingh and his comrades .
.
sent a letter to their Russian comrades on Lenin's birth anniversary, hailing Lenin for the glorious October .
revolution, and pledging that they would fight for such a Revolution in India and all over the world. Bhagat Singh, the .
greatest symbol of patriotic sacrifice, who gave up his life fighting for his own country, wasjust as committed to revolutionary .
internationalism as well. Today, to commemorate Bhagat Singh's martyrdom day, AISAwill screen Ten Days That Shook .
The World-a film based on John Reed's documentary novel, which tells the story of the great October Revolution, and .
uses original footage from the Revolution. .
Today, AI SA will also screen Motorcycle Diaries, based on Che Guevara's notes ofhis travels in Latin America as a .
young medical student. Those diaries call out: ''Let the world change you; and you can change the world". Cht~fs .
diaries record how meeting the poor and indigenous people of Chile, Peru, Venezuela "changed me more than I thought. I .
am not me anymore." Che's journey, that began with his 'Motorcycle Diaries', took him eventually to revolution in Cuba and .
martyrdom in Bolivia, which made him the hero for anti-imperialist people all over Latin America and the world. .
Che Guevara, born in Argentina, fought against a CIA coup in Guatemala, led the Revolution that toppled the US-.
.
spons0red Batista regime in Cuba, and was killed by the CIA while he was leading a guerilla movement in the jungles of .
Bolivia. At a time when imperialistarmies are assaulting third world nations and plundering third world economies, .
Bhagat Singh's legacy of anti-imperialist nationalism and Che's anti-imperialist internationalism becomes all .
.
the more relevant. .
sd/-Rajesh Kumar, Jt. Secy., AJSA, JNU.
sd/-Awadhesh, Gen. Secy., AI SA. JNU .
.